... Kwun Tong town center renewal and the Hai Tan Street project in Sham Shui Po, where hundreds of households and shops were evicted to make way for a luxury residential development. The URA has been mak ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-21
... trol of a town and held them in houses or prisons. A 19-year-old woman told Amnesty how she had been abducted at a wedding in September 2014 alongside the bride and the bride's sister and then held at ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-15
The Hong Kong government is said to have submitted proposals to the District Council and Town Planning Board for replacement of a number of low-density buildings in the Admiralty and Central districts ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-13
... Tuen Mun Town Plaza in February. The other two students, aged 16 and 22, have denied charges of obstructing police officers in carrying out their duties and assaulting police officers on Feb. 8. They ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-10
... ed by the Town Planning Board as a non-polluting industry. A representative of My Storage said Lands Department staff conducted a spot check at his warehouse last year to see if the unit had been subd ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-10
Residents of Tokyo will get a chance to zip around town on Toyota Motor Corp.'s three-wheeled electric car-motorbike from Friday, Reuters reported. The six-month experiment by the world's top-selling ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-10
... y game in town may be continued quantitative easing. But the ongoing weakness of the euro – fed by such policies – is fueling growth in the eurozone’s current account surplus. Indeed, as the euro weak ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-02
... ws' cross town rival, the New York Post, is owned by Rupert Murdoch's media conglomerate News Corp. -- Contact us at [email protected] CG/RA ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-31
... with the Town Planning Board to redevelop its 15-storey warehouse in Chai Wan into a columbarium. The proposed Island Memorial Center seeks to provide 120,000 columbarium niches. As to be expected, t ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-30
... cultural town at the Hengqin New Area near Macau, which is expected to be completed by early 2018. This article appeared in the Hong Kong Economic Journal on March 26. Translation by Vey Wong [Chines ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-26
... n Kennedy Town on the west side of Hong Kong Island, was recently leased for HK$8,500 a month. Earlier this month, a parking spot in Shun Tak Centre in Sheung Wan changed hands for HK$4 million. Land ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-23
A senior government official and members of his family have filed applications with the Town Planning Board to build five houses in a village near a beach in Sai Kung, raising concerns that their appr ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-23
Netizens assailed the Town Planning Board for approving a plan to demolish the Boathouse restaurant in Stanley and build a 10-story hotel on the site. “It’s a shame to have this beautiful building dem ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-20
... de resort town of Surfers Paradise on eastern Australia’s Gold Coast. Chinese companies are still likely to buy some commodity assets, though not in areas of oversupply such as iron ore. UBS A.G. pred ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-20
Residents of a tourist town in southern Taiwan are threatening a blockade unless the local government controls an increasing flood of visitors from the Chinese mainland. Sizihwan Bay in Kaohsiung on t ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-19
A non-profit foundation that seeks to run a shopping mall at the border in Lok Ma Chau will submit its application to the Town Planning Board by the end of the month, Singtao Daily reported Thursday, ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-19
... near the town of Dinsoor. Residents said the vehicle was completely burned. -- Contact us at [email protected] CG/RA ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-19
... ayor of a town on the northern edge of Tikrit told Reuters on Sunday that storage containers filled with chlorine were found by troops and mainly Shi'ite militiamen when they entered al-Alam last week ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-16
... ndustrial town of Kanpur in northern Uttar Pradesh state, police officer Rakesh Kumar said. The groom's family tried to persuade the bride to return but she refused. She said the groom had misled her ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-13
Last month, Islamic State retreated from the strategically important Syrian town of Kobani, which had been occupied for almost six months. For the first time, IS admitted it was defeated. The Islamic ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-09
